A few days ago, the US media ESPN gave the probability of the league's teams reaching the finals through prediction calculations, of which the 5th place on the list is the Jazz team. According to ESPN's current forecast rankings, the Jazz have a 15% chance of reaching the NBA Finals. As a strong team in the Western Division, the Jazz are now also in the top half of the Western Conference record list, and the team has basically locked the playoff places steadily, and now it depends on whether Mitchell and Gobert can lead the team to successfully break out of the West in the playoffs.
The fourth-place team is the Bucks in the Eastern Conference, and although the Bucks were the NBA champions last season and the team leader Alphabet Brother is still the top superstar in the league today, ESPN now only gives the Bucks a 16% chance of the Finals. Personally, I think the Bucks' Finals probability seems to be a bit underestimated, after the nets' Big Three deal disintegrated, it is difficult for a team in the Eastern Division to match the Bucks, so the Bucks are obviously very likely to reach the NBA Finals again.
As for the Miami Heat, who are also part of the Eastern Conference, the Heat's regular season record is undoubtedly very beautiful, and this Eastern Team is currently at the top of the Division's record list, while ESPN predicts that the Heat's Finals probability will reach 21%. Obviously, the Heat, such as Butler, Adebayo and Lowry, will inevitably be a presence that cannot be ignored in the Eastern Conference playoffs.
No. 2 is the Eastern Conference superpower team Celtics, and now the Celtics have a 27% probability of the Finals, and their probability values even exceed those of the Heat and Bucks. But if you compare the current regular season record, the Celtics are only 6th in the Eastern Conference record list, the team's win rate ranking is actually not high, but I don't know why ESPN is so optimistic about the Celtics, can Tatum and Jaylen Brown's dual-core lineup really bring a surprise to fans in the playoffs?
The final team at the top of the list was the Suns, who led the Western Conference, and the Suns ended up with the highest 28% finals probability on the list. One thing to say is that in this season's NBA regular season, the Suns did play their own record performance, and the team record is far better than other teams in the league, but the Suns are now suffering from the injury absence of the main star Paul, which may also affect the Suns' final regular season record ranking!